The caning of Senator Sumner /
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| Imprint: | Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2004. |
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| Description: | xii, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American stories |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5138195 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. The Caning and Its Origins
- Prologue: The Incident
- Majority Report on the Sumner Caning Incident
- Minority Report on the Summer Caning Incident
- Senate Violence and the Transformation of Mid-century America
- The Social Origins of an Abolitionist Senator
- The True Grandeur of Nations
- The Personal World of Brooks and Butler
- Federal Writer's Project: Slave Narrative of Henry Ryan
- Runaway Slave Advertisement, Edgefield Advertiser, 4 May 1854
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens, General Directions as to the Treatment of Negroes (1839)
- Report of the South Carolina College Faculty on the Expulsion of Preston S. Brooks
- Speech by Preston Brooks on Nebraska and Kansas, March 15, 1854
- The Personal Politics of the Nebraska Bill and Fugitive Slaves
- Appeal of the Independent Democrats
- Senator Douglas's Speech on the Nebraska Bill, 30 January 1854
- Nebraska in the Senate
- The Landmark of Freedom
- Senator Andrew Butler's Speech on the Nebraska Bill, 24-25 February 1854
- Nebraska Bill Debates, 3 March 1854
- Sumner's Final Protest Against the Nebraska Bill and Remonstrances from the New England Clergy
- Senator Mason of Virginia Debates Sumner over Northern Religion and Politics
- Sumner and Petitions for the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act
- The Fugitive Slave Case in Boston
- The Boston Riot--Charles Sumner
- Sumner's Speech on the Petition to Repeal the Fugitive Slave Act, 26 June 1856
- Senator Butler's Reply to Sumner
- Senator Mason's Reply to Sumner
- Senator Clay Attacks Sumner
- Sumner's Reply to Assailants and Oath to Support the Constitution
- Senator Butler's Final Response
- The Know-Nothing Interlude
- Notes
- 2.
- Introduction: The Territorial Crisis
- "The Crime Against Kansas:" Sumner's Introductory Remarks
- The Crime Against Kansas: The Apologies for the Crime: The True Remedy
- The Crime Against Kansas, Section One
- The Crime Against Kansas, Section Two: The Apologies (19-20 May 1856)
- The Crime Against Kansas, Section Three: The Remedies (20 May 1856)
- The Crime Against Kansas: Concluding Remarks (20 May 1856)
- Reaction from the Senate
- Response from Democratic Senator Lewis Cass, of Michigan
- Response from Stephen A. Douglas
- Response from Democratic Senator James Mason, of Virginia
- Sumner's Response
- The Attack: Firsthand Accounts
- Preston Brooks Describes the Incident to His Brother
- Apology of Preston Brooks to the Senate
- Testimony of Charles Sumner
- Testimony of New York Times Reporter James W. Simonton
- Testimony of Democratic Rep. Henry A. Edmundson of Virginia
- Speech of Hon. A. P. Butler, 12 June 1856
- The Assault: Legislative Debate
- Speech of Massachusetts Senator Henry Wilson, 23 May 1856
- Massachusetts Legislative Resolves Concerning the Recent Assault upon the Honorable Charles Sumner at Washington
- Resignation Speech of Preston Brooks, 14 July 1856
- Notes
- 3. Coming to Terms with the Caning
- Editorial Reactions
- Home Town Responses: Boston
- The Assault on Mr. Sumner
- Attack on Mr. Sumner
- Home Town Responses: South Carolina
- The Washington Difficulty
- Capt. Brooks' Castigation of Senator Sumner
- Violence in the Political Arena
- The Attack on Mr. Sumner
- The Right View of the Subject
- Chivalry and Degradation
- Freedom of Speech
- The Ruffians in the Senate
- Liberty of Speech, of the Press, and Freedom of Religion
- The Progress of the Revolution
- Editorial Implications
- Public Rallies and Resolutions
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Speaks at the Concord Indignation Meeting
- Resolutions of the Citizens of Martin's Depot, South Carolina, 27 May 1856
- Resolutions of the Students of Union College, Schenectady, New York, 27 May 1856
- Proceedings of the New England Antislavery Convention Wednesday, 28 May and Thursday 29 May 1856
- Resolutions of the Colored Citizens of Boston, 6 June 1856
- Public Approval of Mr. Brooks
- Letter from Congressman John McQueen
- Private Letters of Praise, Consolation, and Condemnation
- Letter of James W. Stone to Charles Sumner
- Letter from "A Friend Indeed" to Charles Sumner, 22 May 1856
- W. Richardson to Charles Sumner, 24 May 1856
- "Cuffy" to Charles Sumner, 26 May 1856
- Seaborn Jones to Preston S. Brooks, 1 June 1856
- Mary Rosamond Dana to Charles Sumner, 1 June 1856
- John Van Buren to Charles Sumner, 10 June 1856
- W. F. Holmes to Preston Brooks, 27 May 1856
- Images of the Caning
- The Fate of Preston Brooks
- Trial Remarks By Preston Brooks
- Duels
- Brooks's Canada Song
- Remarks of Preston S. Brooks on Party Politics and Kansas
- Epitaph
- Sumner's Illness: Was He Shamming?
- Possuming
- Doctor Cornelius Boyle's Testimony (Tuesday 27 June)
- Doctor Marshall Perry's Testimony (Wednesday 28 June)
- Charles Sumner Reports on His Recuperation, 22 July 1856
- The Libels on Senator Sumner; Testimony of His Physicians
- Sumner's Letter to the People of Massachusetts, 22 May 1858
- The State of Mr. Sumner's Health
- The Latest Bulletin
- Implications
- Notes
- Index
